I won’t deny it, my interest in tarot card started out for all the wrong reasons.
Eight years ago when I started my spiritual journey, I was in such a hurry to gather as much knowledge as I could. It felt like all my life I’ve wasted my time believing in lies, deceptions and misinformation. Others in the community were already talking about waking their kundalini, opening their third eye chakra and ascending to the 5th dimension.
Time was running out I thought! I needed to do something in order to be at par with these
enlightened souls!
So I started listening to the likes of Abraham Hicks, Bashar, Deepak Chopra, Teal Swan and so many others. I have to admit, some didn’t resonate with me at all that I dropped them almost instantaneously. But that’s a story for another time. I also dabbled in crystals, tarot cards, and magick! All for the sake of my spiritual advancement.
Looking back, I would say I am glad that none of them stuck. Not that these aren’t useful skills or knowledge to have. But having gained a little bit of wisdom over the course of my journey, I realized that intention is key to ensuring the success of everything we do. Especially if we are to focus on living a life that is honest and true.
An Introduction
The tarot, although first created as a set of playing cards, has seen many evolution throughout the centuries. Today, people have found many ways to use these highly symbolic cards.
Some use them for divination purposes, or as a tool to develop one’s psychic or ‘clair’ abilities. Others would meditate on them, either to gain deeper insights into the hidden meanings of the chosen card, or simply to help their mind to focus. Today, more and more are using the tarot as a psychotherapy or therapeutic tool.
However, to the laymen, they are mostly known for fortune-telling. Be honest, we all have conjured up images of old gypsy women reading cards drawn by helpless customers hoping to get a glimpse of their fates when we think of tarot cards!
Don’t force it if you’re not ready
When I got my first deck, I too tried to go into divination. I watched videos and read books on how to read the cards. How to memorize the meaning of each card, what the 4 suits meant. What the trump cards represented.
I tried and I failed.
When I failed, I went and got myself a different deck (there’s so many pretty ones out there!). I was desperately hoping to find one that would ‘speak‘ to me. After all, that was the advice that I was hearing a lot from the many YouTube tarot masters.
After yet another failure to strike a relationship, this time with my sixth deck, I realized tarot wasn’t for me. And off they went to collect dust on my book shelf for several years.
However, sometime last year, I found that my attention started going back to the cards. But this time, I had completely lost interest in the fancier, more artistic decks I had but was only interested in the Rider-Waite deck.
I am no expert when it comes to the tarot, but I do believe that the more traditional decks such as the Rider-Waite and the Marseille tarot are profoundly rich in esoteric meanings. And for this reason, I became drawn to the story the cards told and the mysteries behind the symbols.
To keep the story short, I finally realized that it wasn’t the divination side of the tarot that fascinated me. Having had my spiritual teachings from a mystic guru who required no tool nor medium for divination, the idea of using tarot for this purpose may have been a little off-putting to me.
The Fool’s Journey in Tarot Card
As I played around with the cards, a story started to emerge from the series of the 22 trumps. It was then that I discovered the Fool’s Journey and began contemplating on the cards with a new perspective. How refreshing it was to find meanings within the cards that closely resonated with me and my journey of self discovery.
Essentially, the Fool’s Journey presented in the tarot illustrates our own journey towards spiritual enlightenment, whether we realize it or not.
I may not know a lot about the tarot especially its deeper esoteric meanings, but I’d like to share my interpretation of the cards the way they have appeared to me – at times through meditation, or simply by a sense of knowing.
I’ll be doing a series of articles covering the 22 major arcana card, traversing the path with the Fool, as he makes his journey out into the world, and eventually returning home to the divinity within.
So stay tuned, and thank you for reading. Blessed be.
Read my interpretation of the Fool's card here! And please let me know your experience with the tarot and how it has helped you along your journey in the comment section below!
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